Making the World Our Home

Lebanon

I had a nightmare last night. Tom and I were picnicking along a road in Beirut when a small plane sputtered to a crash next to us. I was perplexed and asked a passerby what was happening and was told… Read More ›

I was brought to tears this afternoon (even amid giggling) by my children dancing to their favorite song in their favorite movie, smacking their heads with the lid to a cookie tin and pouring out all of the water from… Read More ›

Last night I was REALLY angry. It seemed as though I couldn’t go anywhere near American news without being inundated with hateful and ignorant rhetoric that stood to do nothing but make us as Americans look even worse than we… Read More ›

Men have a lot more fun at Middle Eastern weddings. When your kitchen hits upwards of 120 degrees Fahrenheit there’s no need to put tortillas in the oven to keep warm. On the flip side it’s hard to keep bananas… Read More ›

It’s interesting, those reactions we have to events around us that we don’t even know we have until we look back and examine our actions and attitudes and how they were really affected by the things going on around us…. Read More ›

Just before the kids and I left for Lebanon in June I would tell people that we were moving overseas; I told the people who bought our possessions, the cable company, shopkeepers where I bought provisions. Everyone asked where we… Read More ›

Last night, before bed, I decided that today I would try to make cauliflower pizza crusts and slow cooker chocolate lava cake (I’ve got to balance the healthfulness of our diet somehow). 🙂 I riced the cauliflower last night (ricing… Read More ›